We live in a world where attention spans are constricting, constricting to the point where — and I don’t even consider this a political comment — one of our two major presidential candidates has, like, a 10-minute attention span. That’s the world we live in now. And you can see why — it has to do with the internet, it has to do with all sorts of popular culture things. And I love pop culture. I would just like us to also be able to apply our minds to things that are more sophisticated and have a longer duration. There are problems like climate change that our kids are going to need to solve, and it’s not going to get solved by something where if you can’t figure it out in two minutes, we’re going to move on to something else.
